Judges 14:1
Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
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In The King James Version
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 34:1Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Joshua 15:10and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim (also called Chesalon) on the north, and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
Judges 16:1Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
1 John 2:16For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
Matthew Henry on Judges 14:1
The idea which this chapter gives us of Samson is not what one might have expected concerning one who, by the special designation of heaven, was a Nazarite to God and a deliverer of Israel; and yet really he was both. Here is, I. Samson's courtship of a daughter of the Philistines, and his marriage to her, ver. 1-5 , 7 , 8 . II. His conquest of a lion, and the prize he found in the carcase of it, ver. 5, 6 , 8 , 9 . III. Samson's riddle proposed to his companions ( ver. 10-14 ) and unriddled by the treachery of… Read the whole commentary →